‘And God forbid it should be any other way,’ said Mrs McAleese at the National Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration at the Mansion House last night. No future generation should ever know ‘the indulgence of forgetting’ and for all time the Holocaust should be ‘probed for how it came to be.’
The President lashed out against ‘toxic teaching’ that is taking place ‘somewhere in our world.’ The victims of this teaching are told to ‘hate the otherness of others.’
The President's keynote address was followed by a choreographed representation of life in Auschwitz. Dancers moved to the Take That hit Never Forget.
All four of the Jews to whom Ireland gave refuge during the Second World War were present at what was described by one Gentile as a ‘moving’ ceremony.
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